LOS ANGELES – Former G3 Holistic Inc. medical marijuana dispensary president Aaron Sandusky is expected to be sentenced to federal prison on Monday for up to 10 years.

“I’m looking forward to getting through this part of the process and move on to the appeal,” Sandusky said in an email from inside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. “I hope that this gets overturned or at minimum a new trial. There are no winners in this case.”

Sandusky, convicted in federal court of operating medical marijuana dispensaries in Upland, Colton and Moreno Valley, will be sentenced at 8:30 a.m. at the Roybal Federal Building and Courthouse.

On Oct. 12, Sandusky was convicted of two counts of violating federal marijuana law, one for conspiracy to manufacture marijuana plants, possess with intent to distribute marijuana plants, and to maintain a drug-involved premises, as well as a second count of distributing marijuana plants, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.

On both counts, the jury found Sandusky was in possession of and distributing at least 1,000 marijuana plants.

The federal government in a Dec. 31 sentencing position report requested the court impose a 10-year prison term, 10 years of supervised release, no fine and a mandatory special assessment of $200.

Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, said Friday his office had no comment prior to the sentencing.

The Judge denied Aaron to present his defense. Unfortunately his hopes of “his day in court” will need to be heard in the court of appeals. The medical-marijuana conundrum won’t be solved until California leaders create a statewide policy on how to make pot available for therapeutic use the way voters intended when they passed Proposition 215 in 1996. As long as state legislators fail to act, we’ll still have a ragged patchwork of city policies enacted by officials tugged in different directions by compassion for the sick, the need to stop illegal for-profit pot shops, conflicting court rulings, and hardline federal laws. An Assembly bill to create statewide regulations was withdrawn by its author in June over various conflicts. The new Legislature must get something done.

Contrary to what the corrupt “good ol boy” electeds in Upland led by mayor Ray Musser, former councilman Ken Willis, Upland and other cities including Long Beach caught in the legal crossfire between the good intentions of California voters and the bad intentions of some medpot outlet owners is a long way from over. Now hear this: There are over 6 pot shops operating in Upland today. Did you get that Police Chief Jeff Mendenhall? If pot is destroying Upland as your mayor preaches, then why don’t you get off your ass and do something? How can you forget, Aaron was one of a few that your trusted city leaders (felon Pomierski, Willis, Thomas, etc) demanded 50k cash from to stay open. Ahh…

Marijuana may eventually be headed for outright legalization in California. After voters in the states of Washington and Colorado legalized pot in November, activists are talking about trying again here in 2014 or 2016. In the meantime, the ongoing battle over medical marijuana isn’t helping legitimate therapeutic users or the communities with troublesome dispensaries. This remains a state issue.

CorrUpland on
January 6th, 2013 3:25 pm

Ken Willis and Ray Musser should have followed their mentor JP Pomierski to jail for their ripping off of Upland over the past decade. Willis the “self-proclaimed water expert” and Musser the “Lord’s mayor” may both have Parkinson’s disease tremors and problems with coordination. They should both move to Michigan where there is interest in the legislature now to expand and define what people can use medical marijuana for. Current laws pertaining to medical marijuana in Michigan allow for the drug to be used as treatment for certain diseases such as glaucoma, cancer, hepatitis C and Crohn’s disease. A public hearing regarding Parkinson’s disease and medical marijuana is planned for Jan. 25 at 1 p.m. at the Michigan Library and Historical Center in Lansing.

Little Stevie Wonder on
January 6th, 2013 8:59 pm

It’s in the water, CorrUpland…

Barneyblows on
January 7th, 2013 8:39 am

LSW… Good one!

Anonymous on
January 7th, 2013 12:45 pm

@#1

Wants to know if we are interested in helping Aaron…

I am!

I’ll help him GET MORE than 10 years!

Ten years is NOTHING!

Hey, “No justice” Do you think the judge might consider giving him another ten years if I turn over the information I have on him about how he recruited community college students to push it on campus, and even offered them a “bonus” for every new referral to his G3 Holistic “medical” marijuana dispensary?

Let him rot in jail and think of the minds and futures he destroyed for his own PROFIT…he goes to jail, sadly those hooked on this drug have just gone to another dispensary as their live GO NO WHERE!

Nojustice on
January 7th, 2013 3:57 pm

This is for MMJ, not weapons, heroine, or terrorist actions. It is one of California’s biggest travesty of Justice I have every seen in my life. I know Aaron and I closely followed this case since long before he was arrested. This case was a stacked deck by the DEA and those Local Officials including the corrupt Upland electeds (former mayor now convicted felon JP Pomierski, Ken Willis, Ray Musser, Tom Thomas, etc) from the get go. The Upland Officials tried to take pay offs to the DEA making this the example to America and Californians. Aaron followed state law and the MMJ Guidelines. But to no avail… the Federal Judge who headed this trial declined Aaron’s lawyers to present the information.

Think of it this way… This Countries Banks and all the Fraud that took the Cash and value right out of our accounts, pockets and 401K got bailed with no accountability but this Man is going away for ten years in Prison for following the State Law the Feds did not like..

It is a very sad Day today…….. for Aaron and Americans….

Anonymous on
January 7th, 2013 4:10 pm

“Aaron followed state law”

Aaron should have followed a higher law, the law of reason and conscience.